The company’s primary assembly facility in Zhengzhou, China is operating at a “significantly reduced capacity” due to the country’s strict restrictions regarding the Covid-19 virus.

While things are moving at a generally lower cost and more fluidly than in the earlier pandemic days, supply chain disruptions are far from over.

Fossil-fuel shipping is experiencing a massive boom, with rates reaching as high as $100,000 per day for some of the largest gas carriers.

The Ukrainian Grain Corridor, originally made possible with the assistance of the neighboring country Turkey and the United Nations is no more.

In the recently-passed IRA bill, the United States is offering tax benefits to those renewable energy companies operating domestically.

Not only that, but they are also in the top slot for rare earth concentrate production and control up to 90% of the semiconductor chip global manufacturing supply chain.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kath Hicks will be conducting a meeting with top American defense contractors to discuss securing the nation’s supply chains.

The U.S. supply chain issues have forced companies to reconsider their sourcing and operations strategies and many have decided to bring everything back close to the chest.

Two new weekly flights have been scheduled between Greenville-Spartanburg Airport (GSP) in South Carolina and Incheon Airport (ICN), increasing the air market accessibility between Asia and the Southeast region of the United States.

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA), at the mouth of the Lower Mississippi River, will now be serving larger vessels after construction is completed in Violet, St. Bernard Township. T

The two nations arranged a meeting between Senior US National Security Council official Tarun Chhabra and Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez, and they are scheduled to discuss the matter later this month.

The United States Department of Commerce placed 31 Chinese tech companies on an “unverified list” in early October causing some commotion.

In a small sample of sixteen privatized airports, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER Working Paper 30544) analyzed 437 privatized airports.

The Chinese startup in question, Hydron, develops autonomous hydrogen-powered trucks.

Though disrupted supply chains are nothing new, the main waterway from Minnesota to Louisiana has been the victim of record-low water levels due to very little rainfall.

According to the results of a recent SAP SE survey of senior business decision-makers, more than half (52%) believe that the supply chain is in desperate need of improvement.

After the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade was implanted in 2020, (replacing the previous Nafta pact that was in place for twenty years) the United States and Canada filed complaints against Mexico’s electricity policy.

Last week, Russia revoked its agreement to the United Nations-brokered deal that was meant to ease a global food crisis and assist in delivering grain from clogged Ukraine ports in the Black Sea.

The federal government is being asked to intervene in the growing diesel shortage problem.

China has been making veiled - or… not-so-veiled threats of invading Taiwan over recent months.